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In reply to the discussion: I won't forgive people who voted for Trump. [View all]Cirsium
(1,151 posts)Don't hold your breath.
MAGA supporters ever having any regrets? Let's look to history.
Here is what William Shirer, journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, discovered when interviewing everyday Germans after WWII. Every German city lay in ruins and millions had been killed. The death camps and prison labor were well know. A generation of German men were dead or maimed.
"There was so much that was true that did not make sense: the monumental apathy of the German people and their deep regret, not that they had started the war, but merely that they had lost it; their whining complaints at the lack of food and fuel and their total lack of sympathy or even interest in the worse plight of the occupied peoples, for which they bore so much responsibility; their boredom at the very mention of the Nuremberg trial, which they were convinced was only an Allied propaganda stunt; their striking unreadiness for, or interest in, democracy, which we, with typical Anglo-Saxon fervor and blindness, were trying to shove down their throats."
― William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary
Their deep regret, not that they had started the war, but merely that they had lost it. Let that sink in. FAFO? Hardly.